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20 New Sustainable Packaging Innovations

Packaging consultancy shares 20 new sustainable packages and technologies that reflect broader industry trends, including compostability/biodegradability, reusability, and recyclability, among others.

Sustainable Packaging: Dish detergent
Rema 1000 Maskinrens own-brand dishwash detergent bottle is now being made from recycled fishing nets from Danish discount retail chain Rema 1000.

Packaging innovation consultancy ThePackHub regularly highlights some of the most innovative examples of sustainable packaging. Here are 20 innovative sustainable packaging solutions that exemplify the latest trends, as featured by Paul Jenkins, managing director of ThePackHub, in recent webinars and briefing reports. The innovations, in no particular order, included:

Sustainable Packaging: Finish Powerball Quantum dishwasher podsIn Italy, a pouch for Finish Powerball Quantum dishwasher pods from Reckitt Benckiser uses a 100%-recyclable mono-material film.1.    Rema 1000 Maskinrens own-brand dishwash detergent bottle is now being made from recycled fishing nets from Danish discount retail chain Rema 1000, in cooperation with Plastix.

2.     Scientists in Singapore have developed a sustainable way to extract chitin from prawn shells by fermenting it with fruit waste.

3.     Gualapack has produced a 100%-recyclable monolayer pouch for German company Frucht Bar’s baby food pouches.

4.     Italian brand Alba Cheese has switched to pallet stretch wrap that uses a proprietary organic additive from Biogone Plastics that causes the film to biodegrade 20-times faster than conventional film in a landfill.

5.     In Italy, a pouch for Finish Powerball Quantum dishwasher pods from Reckitt Benckiser uses a 100%-recyclable mono-material film supplied by Mondi. 

LocoSocoThe Heart of England Co-operative Society has agreed to a new distribution agreement with LocoSoco, a social enterprise that offers a wide range of refillable household products, that will see 35 Co-op stores fitted out with LocoSoco Eco-Refill Stations.Sustainable Packaging: LocoSoco Eco-Refill Stations6.     John B. Sanfilippo & Son is using a clear, lightweight, 100% recyclable PET canister, the SmartCAN® from Ring Container Technologies, to replace a composite can for its nut products.

7.     Since April, European yogurt brands Schärdinger, Tirol Milch, and Stainzer have been using a new 95-mm, snap-on plastic yogurt lid from Greiner Packaging that is dishwasher-safe and can be reused.

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